The Scacciaguai restaurant in Barga Vechia celebrated their third birthday this weekend in style with a party that started in the afternoon and continued right through the evening and into the next day. On the menu was a standing buffet for the guests followed by an evening meal but the real special dish on offer was the music. Barga’s own Emma & gli Aristodemo playing their own brand of 1940’s and 50’s Italian swing.
The voice of Emma Morton and backed by her usual musicians; Fabio Guazzelli on guitar, Keane on Irish drum and percussion, Leo Gnesi on double bass and Alessandro Rizzardi on mandolin and sax.
The birthday cake for the Reverberi family with its 3 candles was cut to a round of applause late in the evening but the real “cherry on the cake, so to speak” was supplied once again by the musicians as at the end of the concert, the guitarist Fabio Guazzelli got down on bended knee and proposed to, and was accepted by Emma Morton.
The singer now proudly wears an 1930’s engagement ring on her left hand and wedding bells are expected some time within the year.
Who will play at their wedding ? hmm
Images from the Scacciaguai concert thanks to Luca Galeotti from Il Giornale di Barga
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A mini Jack’s Pack played for the 1st birthday of Scacciaguai, The Beagles for the second and now Emma & gli Aristodemos for the third
Click on the link below to hear just one song from the concert this evening:
Silenzioso Slow- (Abbassa la tua radio) -1940
Silenzioso Slow- (Abbassa la tua radio) -1940
Ho scritto una canzone
più leggera di un sospir
e la canto con il cuore
perché tu la possa udir.
In questa serenata
senza ritmi né frastuon
c’è la febbre del mio amore
che sospira di passion.
Abbassa la tua radio per favor
se vuoi sentire i battiti del mio cuore
le cose belle che ti voglio dir
tu sola amore mio dovrai sentir.
Le mie parole tanto appassionate
son timide carezze profumate
abbassa la tua radio per favor
perché io son geloso del mio amor.
Mi pare di star solo
cuore a cuor vicino a te
e ti vedo sorridente
fiduciosa in braccio a me.
E mentre la mia voce
ti sospira amor amor
io ti sogno abbandonata
dolcemente sul mio cuor.